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New job - Finding it so Weird!
0 Ok I couldn't come up with a title that described what I'm feeling.
I left a large (over 7200 deliveries a year) to take a job in a small hospital and I'm finding myself shaking my head inside as I'm being oriented.
I'm on day 3. I went into my first csection yesterday and was shocked at some of the practices...like looking at the clock on the wall for birth time to not keeping a white board with the count listed to taking the newborn Out of the OR to the.."nursery?" before moms section was done. Oh yeah they only keep the newborn with mom for a bit..then take them away to the nursery. And they don't have the RN's doing vaginal checks as they assess their pts in labor..the residents do ALL the checks.
I could go on and on..but I wondered if anyone else ever felt this way after changing facilities..and will it go away? I am constantly holding back from saying.."well we did it This way at ..." because thats so annoying lol.
But I feel like things are done so strangely..and I am not feeling a bond with the job yet.
Anyone else ever feel like this when they shifted jobs??
See when you apply for a job you have no idea how things are done..you just get the nice little tour and thats that. Unless you have a friend working somewhere you really don't know how things are done. And most of the nurses Im working with, have been there for 25-35 yrs..so maybe they don't even Know its messed up lol.
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From 'East Coast'; Joined Aug '04; Posts: 620; Likes: 58.1Jun 29, '12 by loriangel14 GuideWhat's wrong with looking at a clock for the time?5Jun 29, '12 by bagladyrn GuideThese procedures (with the possible exception of separating a well mom and baby - personal prejudice) are not wrong, they are just different.
Was all of your prevous experience at one facility? Until you have worked at multiple places it's hard to realize how many different ways there are of doing the same task.
I've been traveling as an OB nurse for over 15 yrs. now and can tell you I've seen dozens of ways to accomplish any given procedure in OB. Some seem more efficient than others but few really make any difference in the outcome.
P.S. - you are correct to bite your tongue on the "where I came from...." phrase - that's the kiss of death for a new employee in relating to peers!0Jun 29, '12 by loriangel14 GuideI wouldn't be writing off my coworkers just because they have experience.Baglady is right.Different places do things in a variety of ways.1Jun 29, '12 by sdlaneIt is normal for you to have these feelings, just like some one at your new job, may think it is strange if you told them how you did things at your old job. I don't think it is a big deal. You just were so use to doing things a certain way on your old job that the new job seems different to you. (Which it is a different hospital, with different ways of doing the same job.) You will adjust to the new ways !0Well when the baby is born, I was used to looking at the computer for the time. Looking at a clock just seem so inaccurate. You cant Really tell the time looking up at an angle to the clock. So ok it doesnt really matter what Exact time it is I suppose..as long as its written the same everywhere. But not keeping mom and baby together seems So weird. After the Csection they took the baby to the nursery after about an hour. And dad went along. At my old place they Never took the mom and baby apart..and baby Had to go via the streacher to her periop recovery room with the baby in her arms.
I was trained in OB in a very progressive large hospital..and I guess I'll get used to new ways. =)0..altho I'm really po'ed that I won't be doing vag exams. I feel like Im giving up some power lol.0Jun 29, '12 by SNB1014well, my *understanding* is that it is best practice for hospitals to be encouraging couplet care and to encourage mom to breastfeed on demand, hold the baby to the breast, etc. that said, you are ONLY on day 3 of orientation. you have only seen a miniscule of what your coworkers are like and the protocols of your unit. i would give it a bit. maybe 3 months down the line you could speak to your nurse educator and phrase something along the line of "acog/awhonn says best practices are to do x, y, z....is there a reason we are doing this instead?" etc0Jun 29, '12 by SNB1014because as "weird" as something may be or feel to you, "weird" isn't good enough and very subjective. and if i had a new coworker constantly singing the praises of her previous employer, i would say "well then why don't you go back and marry it! :-P" hah0SNB, no I'm Not singing the praises of my previous employer..you misread me. I left there for good reason. But I see now in resprospect that they Did do things more in line with acog/awhonn standards.
I don't say a thing about how they are doing things..Im just thinking these things in my head. And weird is the word I used because I don't know what word to use. Let me rephrase..I dont feel like they're doing things as safely as they could..hows that?
Yes at my "last employer"..there was no nursery. Oh there was one if they absolutely needed it..but we were told to tell our patients that they baby was with them all the time. And that there was no nursery.
Funny thing I overheard one of my coworkers say yesterday who just went to AWHONN conference. She said she opened their recommendations and said they don't do ANY of them HERE!! I just listened.0Jun 29, '12 by klone, MSN, RNQuote from jodyangelI currently work at a very large, progressive teaching hospital, and we still take the baby to the PACU ahead of the mom. They don't go arm-in-arm together to the PACU. So, just goes to show that even not all progressive large teaching hospitals do it the same way.Well when the baby is born, I was used to looking at the computer for the time. Looking at a clock just seem so inaccurate. You cant Really tell the time looking up at an angle to the clock. So ok it doesnt really matter what Exact time it is I suppose..as long as its written the same everywhere. But not keeping mom and baby together seems So weird. After the Csection they took the baby to the nursery after about an hour. And dad went along. At my old place they Never took the mom and baby apart..and baby Had to go via the streacher to her periop recovery room with the baby in her arms.
I was trained in OB in a very progressive large hospital..and I guess I'll get used to new ways. =)0Jun 29, '12 by Been there,done thatIt's only been 3 days. Of course it 's gonna seem weird.
You are wise to bite your tongue instead of comparing practices from your previous facility.
Earn your respect... that takes time.( I know it well, I do agency work and travel nursing).
When the time is right, your experience will be a great asset to your new facility.
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A Distinction with CLAWS: Opposing both Abortion and Capital Punishment
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I recently had the task of writing an article and supportive text regarding the efforts of the activist arm of �Your Catholic Voice� movement to encourage its members to work for the confirmation of the Honorable William Pryor to the Federal Bench. The leadership of �Your Catholic Voice� on this vital effort is being undertaken by the Honorable Ray Flynn, the President of our activist arm.
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Let me make one thing PERFECTLY clear. I oppose the death penalty. I always have and I always will. I consider it to be an integral pert of HOW I UNDERSTAND the call of the Catholic Church to be fully, consistently and faithfully pro-life. I am a deacon of the Church, a lawyer and a public policy activist who has always sought to inform my participation in every aspect of culture, including politics, by my faith.
I also have the privilege of being one of the founders of the �Your Catholic Voice� movement. I know that in all of our efforts we have pledged ourselves to absolute fidelity to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church - without compromise.
I also know that one of the main challenges faced by any effective Catholic efforts of political participation is the inability of some Catholics to make distinctions based on prudential judgment. As one who knows the rough and tumble of activist politics, I have experienced the disingenuous efforts of the proponents of the contemporary culture of death to SIEZE THE MOMENT and thus undermine our impact in the political arena, both in the elective and the appointive processes.
Here is the truth. As Catholics we oppose all taking of life---period. We begin with the fundamental conviction that all life is sacred. Innocent human life is especially to be protected. There is a difference.
The Magisterium (teaching office) of the Catholic Church has never taught that Capital punishment is intrinsically evil. In fact, the history of our beloved Church�s treatment of this difficult issue reveals that capital punishment has, at times, been recognized as falling within the prerogative and jurisdiction of the State. Of course the exercise of this most heinous and frightening punishment was to be exercised only as a means to protect society and serve the common good.
That is not to say that there has not been a consistent opposition to this position in the tradition of our Church as well. There has been. I would actually side with this opposition. I OPPOSE CAPITAL PUNISMENT- PERIOD!
However, the Catholic Church has consistently taught that the taking of innocent human life is always and everywhere immoral, wrong and a heinous violation of fundamental human rights. The human person, no matter how small, is a gift from God and has an inalienable right to life. There is a distinction made however between taking innocent lives and the States treatment of the guilty.
Unfaithful Catholics in public life have also sometimes intentionally muddied the waters. It was SAFE for them to hide behind this distinction. They have not opposed abortion, in absolute rebellion against the clear teaching of their Church. They have tried to hide behind a strained notion a private/public dichotomy which is absolutely without support in the teaching of the Church.
Some have opposed capital punishment but supported the so-called right to abortion-apparently viewing the right to life of the guilty as more important than the right to life of the child in the first home of the womb.While others have rightly opposed it. Only a few have courageously opposed both.
However, both major political parties have, for the most part, followed the rush toward supporting capital punishment. Fortunately, the pace of that rush is slowing and the policy is being reconsidered for many valid reasons, even beyond the obvious moral concerns regarding the taking of any human life.
Concerns such as the disparate nature of the use of capital punishment, the mistakes later found in evidence secured through D.N.A. and other advanced tools and the potential of killing the innocent,and the questionable legal representation afforded to the poor and disenfranchised are rightly leading to serious reconsideration of capital punishment. Recent moratoriums like the one in Illinois are a hopeful sign that this practice will soon come to an end.
Your Catholic Voice is faithful to the magisterial teaching of the Catholic Church on this and every subject. We oppose capital punishment. HOWEVER, we also recognize the important difference between the taking of innocent human lives and, the States taking potentially guilty adult lives in the application of capital punishment. Most people can also make this distinction. Unfortunately, some of our opponents have played upon the failure of some to do ...
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Does anyone know a clean way to get near-LIFO or even not near-FIFO (e.g. random) behavior from
Alternative Question: Could someone point me to the code for the thread that manages the actual storage structure behind
multiprocessing.Queue? It seems like it would be trivial within that to provide approximately LIFO access, but I got lost in the rabbit hole trying to find it.
- I believe
multiprocessing.Queuedoes not guarantee order. Fine. But it is near-FIFO so near-LIFO would be great.
- I could pull all the current items off the queue and reverse the order before working with them, but I prefer to avoid a kludge if possible.
(edit) To clarify: I am doing a CPU bound simulation with
multiprocessing and so can't use the specialized queues from
Queue. Since I haven't seen any answers for a few days, I've added the alternative question above.
In case it is an issue, below is slight evidence that
multiprocessing.Queue is near-FIFO. It just shows that in a simple case (a single thread), it is perfectly FIFO on my system:
import multiprocessing as mp
import Queue
q = mp.Queue()
for i in xrange(1000):
deltas = []
while True:
value1 = q.get(timeout=0.1)
value2 = q.get(timeout=0.1)
except Queue.Empty:
#positive deltas would indicate the numbers are coming out in increasing order
min_delta, max_delta = min(deltas), max(deltas)
avg_delta = sum(deltas)/len(deltas)
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A test like Judge Diments if individuals can pay, they will once threatened with jail, he asserts is not unheard-of. Nor, for that matter, is jailing those who cannot pay: A new report by the American Civil Liberties Union in New Hampshire found that the states taxpayers paid $167,000 in 2013 to jail people who owed $76,000.
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Sergeant Michael Van Buren is in the right line of work. We first see him starting out with the usual stuff, screaming at an apparently armed woman to hit the ground, drop her weapon. When this doesnt work we all too often see the officer repeat himself, shouting more and more hysterically until he pumps both himself and the suspect into mindless rage and fear.
But Sergeant Van Buren isnt a frightened coward. He shifts gear instantly into calm reason and patiently persists. Little by little, minute by minute, a relative calm descends, and at last the situation is brought under control.
Van Buren seems to be a regular Sonny Lee, of whom Ive written before. Sonny was a short, wide, famously tough detective sergeant in Arlington, Virginia, when I was a police reporter. One day I asked him if he had ever had occasion to draw his gun. Hell, no, he said. Man needs a gun to do this job, hes in the wrong line of work.
Heroes and Friends | Hope for the Future
From the New York Times:
Though some Americans have tried to write off the practice of raping boys, which was described in an article in The New York Times on Monday, as a cultural difference between Afghans and Westerners, many Afghans say that they, too, find it shameful and wrong. (In fact, the Taliban banned it when in power.)
is Wisconsins loss:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is back at work at the state Capitol after his abrupt exit from the Republican presidential race.
Walkers spokeswoman Jocelyn Webster said Tuesday that Walker was spending most of his day in briefings with executive staff and he would not make any public appearances.
She says that Walker looks forward to continuing to work hard for the people of Wisconsin for the remainder of his term.
Class Warriors | Idiots | Presidential Hopefuls | Republicans
No, wait a minute. That would be Saudi Arabia, our BFF:
Saudi Arabia has dismissed the final appeal of a juvenile prisoner set to be crucified. Ali Mohammed Al-Nimr was arrested aged 17 after participating in anti-government protests in 2012. He was accused of protesting illegally and being in possession of firearms.
Ali was initially held at a juvenile offenders facility. Reports indicate that he was tortured and signed a confession under duress. The appeal was held in secret and dismissed, with no remaining legal routes of objection to his sentence of death by crucifixion, initially handed down on 27 May 2014.
From the New York Times:
WASHINGTON Only four or five Syrian individuals trained by the United States military to confront the Islamic State remain in the fight, the head of the United States Central Command told a Senate panel on Wednesday, a bleak acknowledgment that the Defense Departments $500 million program to raise an army of Syrian fighters has gone nowhereOh, I know it looks bad, but what if those $125 million or $100 million Syrian individuals turn out to be four or five super troopers? Captain Marvel, for instance. Or Batman. Or Plastic Man. Dont laugh. It could happen. But actually it wont.
I know because I spent two years as a private in the finest body of fighting men in the history of the world and the rest of the planetary system as well. President Obama didnt, or he wouldn't keep falling for the murderous nonsense sold to him by the War Department, as it was once more accurately called. He looks at all those stars glittering on the shoulders of some manly fellow, all those bright ribbons stretching from axilla to sternum, and thinks, Wow, that guy must really have his feces assembled. When I look at the same man I see a second lieutenant, and one who brown-nosed his way to the top. Genuinely smart second lieutenants seldom make it past colonel thats the difference between a General Petraeus, say, and a Colonel Wilkerson.
Declare Victory And Leave | Our Longest National Nightmare Ever | The Fall of the
Do you or your child have heavy student loan debt? Well I have good news for you. This is from the Exit Counseling Guide for borrowers of federal student loans:
If you die, of if you are a parent borrower of a PLUS loan and the student for whom you obtained the loan dies, you may be eligible for a discharge.How's that for a deal? If you or your kid dies you may get a discharge!
Now quit complaining and get my nonfat Latte, you entitled whiners.
and pass the link on to your friends, bearing in mind that Zoë Wilson, unlike most charities I could name, has no overhead. The 14-year-old granddaughter of our next-door neighbors recently arrived in Ljubljana, where her biologist father is conducting a year-long conservation study of Slovenian bears (who knew?). So why not?, she figured she might as well buy 32 pairs of shoes and a whole bunch of other neat stuff while she was there. But she still wants more. Can you help her out?
With the money I raised we were able to buy 41 train tickets, sleeping bags, blankets, pads and 32 pairs of shoes. If you want to know more about our days volunteering keep reading! When we first arrived there were not too many people, just beat up tents set up on a large dirt area. I mostly noticed young kids kicking a slightly flat soccer ball, and playing on plastic bikes while their parents watched them.
When we showed up we were met by Hungarian volunteers who had been working around the clock, they showed us where all the storage was. Then we moved all of our donated gear into the makeshift tents. We still had 1000 dollars to use, so my dad and a volunteer named Dora and I drove to the (railway) station where we met other volunteers from Migration Aid. We spent $500 or 135,000 Hungarian forints on 41 train tickets to a small Hungarian city on the Austrian border where the refugees would then be able to walk into Austria. These tickets will be going to people who have absolutely nothing. After this we went to a giant Wal-Mart esc store.
We filled up a cart with men and womans shoes. We bought 32 pairs of good walking shoes. When arrived back at camp the volunteers were in shock at how many we had. Shoes were badly needed. After I helped pass out shoes, a wave of people arrived in camp. What had just been quiet was now filled with a buzz of different languages, everyone just asking for help. I found the kids first. Fitting five year olds with new pants, jackets and shoes, miss, miss please was a phrase that filled my ears.
Hope for the Future
Over at The National Review, Jonah Goldberg is terribly upset. Over here, Im not:
How many Republicans have been deemed unfit for the Oval Office because of comparatively minor character flaws or ideological shortcomings? Rick Perry in 2012 saw his candidacy implode when he couldnt remember the third item on his checklist of agencies hed close down. Well, even in that oops moment, Rick Perry comes off as Lincolnesque compared with Donald Trump
Ronald Reagan once said, Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. Trump is close to the reverse. Hes a mouth at the wrong end of an alimentary canal spewing crap with no sense of responsibility.
Elections | Idiots | Presidential Hopefuls | Republicans | Rich White Trash
Trump excuses his sleazy business dealing by saying his victims were big boys, fellow scum who would have done the same thing to him. To a limited extent I bought this; who expects honor among sleaze. But that excuse wont work when it comes to Trump University (now theres an oxymoron for you).
Consider this:
In order to pay for their training, Trump University officials told students to make up the name of a phony business and lie about their income in order to get higher credit limits with which to pay for their workshops and apprenticeships. Many students spent up to $25,000 and $35,000 just to attend classes, only to have their credit scores crater after the fact.
Kathleen Meese of Schoharie, New York said that an instructor pressured her to charge $25,000 on her credit card in order to qualify for the schools Gold Elite program. Meese said she balked at the figure because she has to care for her son who has Down syndrome.
The instructor, Meese said, told me that I had to sign up for Trump Gold Elite for $25,000 to help my family. He said he had a son, so he knew how family meant everything to me
Republicans | Rich White Trash
With the punditocracy all in oohs and aahs about Trump pledging not to run an independent campaign, Paul Waldman's point is well taken.
Since the pledge would be happily violated by the only candidate who it was designed to constrain in the first place, it has little practical significance. But it does make the Republican Party look pathetic. They're so scared of the guy leading their primary race (as well they should be) that they have to beg him to pinkie-swear that he won't turn around and screw them over in the general election if they're lucky enough for him not to be their nominee. But their real problem may be that by the time they get there, he will have already done enough damage that it'll be too late.
Political Commentary
Since the United States is not Australia or any other country rational on the question of gun control, none of the usual, obvious, commonsense solutions to gun violence can ever be enacted here. What to do then? Here is the first proposal Ive come across that might actually stand a chance, in this land of induced constitutional derangement:
From John Gear, posting on Undernews.
Rather than trying to limit access to or take guns away from law-abiding adults, we must instead insist that the adult responsible for a gun at any instant (maker, seller, or buyer) have enough liability insurance to cover the harm that could result if that adult misuses it or lets it reach the wrong hands.
Who gets the insurance proceeds, and for what? The state crime victims' compensation fund, whenever a crime involving guns is committed or a gun mishap occurs. The more victims, the bigger the payout. The greater the damage (from intimidation to multiple murders and permanent crippling), the greater the payout. The insurers will also pay the fund for other claims, such as when a minor commits suicide by gun or accidentally kills a playmate with Daddy's pistol. This will reduce such mishaps. Insurance is very effective in getting people to adopt safe practices in return for lower premiums.
When a crime involving a gun occurs, the firm who insured it pays the claim. If the gun is not found or is uninsured (and there will still be many of these at first) then every fund will pay a pro-rated share of the damages, based on the number of guns they insure. This will motivate insurance firms and legitimate gun owners to treat uninsured guns as poison, instead of as an unavoidable byproduct of the Second Amendment.
Glimmers of Sanity | Hope for the Future
for the Ferguson police department and any others facing the loss of their principal revenue stream shaking down African Americans on phony charges. From Al Jazeera:
Police investigating Thailands deadliest bombing issued arrest warrants on Monday for two suspects then congratulated themselves on an earlier arrest, and said they would give themselves the money offered as a reward
The police congratulated themselves on Monday for making the arrest, and said they would give themselves an $84,000 reward, though the man has not been charged let alone convicted and may not be the prime suspect.
The reward was originally offered to the public for tips leading to the arrest of suspects, but National Police Chief Somyot Poompanmoung said he was taking the unusual step of redirecting the cash to highlight that Thailands police are good at their job.
American Heroes | Graft, Corruption and Malfeasance | Police State | Race
Why should I say it when Glenn Greenwald already has:
A Washington Post article about the incident actually equated the two figures, beginning with the headline: Jorge Ramos is a conflict junkie, just like his latest target: Donald Trump That Ramos was acting more as an activist than a journalist was a commonly expressed criticism among media elites this morning.
Here we find, yet again, the enforcement of unwritten, very recent, distinctively corporatized rules of supposed neutrality and faux objectivity which all Real Journalists must obey, upon pain of being expelled from the profession. A Good Journalist must pretend they have no opinions, feign utter indifference to the outcome of political debates, never take any sides, be utterly devoid of any human connection to or passion for the issues they cover, and most of all, have no role to play whatsoever in opposing even the most extreme injustices.
Thus: you do not call torture torture if the U.S. government falsely denies that it is; you do not say that the chronic shooting of unarmed black citizens by the police is a major problem since not everyone agrees that it is; and you do not object when a major presidential candidate stokes dangerous nativist resentments while demanding mass deportation of millions of people. These are the strictures that have utterly neutered American journalism, drained it of its vitality and core purpose, and ensured that it does little other than serve those who wield the greatest power and have the highest interest in preserving the status quo.
The parties have come a long, strange way from Booker T. Washington and Vito Marcantonio to Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia. This from Thaddeus Russells A Renegade History of the United States:
Guglielmo's analysis of voting patterns in Chicago during the 1920s shows that many Italians willingly voted alongside African-Americans throughout these years. Furthermore, some Italians never seemed overly concerned about belonging to the same party [Republican] as African Americans, even when the Democrats furiously fought to paint that party as Negro through and through. Indeed, Italian-language newspapers openly advertised the point that Italians and African-Americans held similar party affiliations, and on one occasion, LItalia held up African-Americans as a model for Italian political organization and behavior.
When the national political parties were demographically realigned in the 1930s, both Italian Americans and African Americans moved overwhelmingly to the Democratic Party and remained solid voting blocks for the Democrats for the next 30 years. Indeed, one of the greatest champions of black civil rights during the 1930s and 1940s was Vito Marcantonio, the left-wing New York Congressman whose East Harlem district contained large numbers of both Italians and African Americans. Marcantonio sponsored several civil rights bills, led the congressional fight against the discriminatory poll tax in southern states, and worked to make lynching a federal crime.
Civil Liberties | Historical Perspectives | Race | Republicans
Over at The Guardian, the actual newspaper of record, economics editor Larry Elliott doesn't think things are looking good. I mean, when your opening sentence is "And so it begins", you're establishing a certain mood, and he ends the next paragraph with "This could get ugly". So you get that he's not optimistic about the near future, economically speaking at least.
Generally, he reports, there's a trigger event such as a huge spike in oil prices or a well-known bank having to admit it was in difficulties that indicates systemic weakness widely recognized but never voiced; and in this case the Chinese economy and the government's somewhat inept handling of it are the elephant in the room. A year (and $300 billion USD) spent propping up the yuan/renminbi has ended with implicit admission of failure, resulting in speculators finding their accounts lighter and governments and corporations having to adjust trade and foreign exchange policies and rates to the ripple effects of the world's second largest economy suffering such a huge turnaround.
In the past the US could often be counted on to take up the slack in consumption, but our consumption is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a miniscule portion of our population.
The economic story of the US since the Great Recession ended has been of QE [quantitative easing] fuelling a six-year bull market in shares at a time when economic growth has been weak and productivity growth even weaker. There has been no trickle-down effect, and no attempt to redress the main structural problem of the past three decades: the severing of the link between productivity and wages. The top 10% of US households took 116% of the income gains when the US economy was recovering between 2009 and 2012. The other 90% of US citizens saw their living standards fall. Inequality has widened.
Around the world, power is becoming more and more concentrated. And not even in some manner at least intended for the public welfare, but rather in the hands of the most opportunistic and ruthless, the greediest and most power-hungry, among us. In the past this was a recipe for localized conflict, but that no longer exists. Since nearly anyone seriously bent on terrorism can find some sort of hugely destructive weapon, local conflict quickly spreads.
All power corrupts, Acton wrote to his friend. Concentrated power, I assert, produces concentrated corruption, and the combination is a toxic brew. We don't need more Presidents indebted from the moment they're elected to these private and thus unaccountable seats of concentrated, corrupt power. I see only one Presidential candidate who avoids that mold from which both parties' candidates and elected officials have long been cut.
Economics and Society | Political Commentary
Basically theres nobody left but Netanyahus Likud and its American subsidiary, the GOP, who doesnt back the Iran nuclear deal. See this from David Bromwich at TomDispatch:
Lets start with Jewish opinion in America. When Steven Cohen, a professor at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, conducted a poll of American Jews, including those who, like myself, are not religious, he found that an astounding 63% approved of the nuclear deal, a figure impressively higher right now than American opinion on the subject generally. In other words, with the single exception of J Street, all the major Jewish organizations that are lobbying against the deal and claiming to represent American Jews and Jewish opinion dont. As Cohen and Todd Gitlin wrote recently in the Washington Post, Plainly, the idea that American Jews speak as a monolithic bloc needs very early retirement. So does the canard that their commitment to Israel or the views of its prime minister overwhelms their support for Obama and the Iran deal. So does the idea that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads, or represents, the worlds Jews.
So call that a bit of a surprise on Jewish opinion. But what about Israel, where support among key figures for deep-sixing the nuclear deal is self-evident? Again, just one small problem: almost any major Israeli figure with a military or intelligence background who is retired or out of government and can speak freely on the matter seems to have come out in favor of the agreement. (The same can be said, by the way, for similar figures in this country, as well as Gary Samore, a former Obama administration White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction and until recently head of United Against Nuclear Iran, a Sheldon Adelson-funded group whose job is to knee-cap such an agreement. He stepped down from that post recently to support the nuclear deal.) In Israel, a list as long as your arm of retired intelligence chiefs, generals and admirals, officials of all sorts, even nuclear scientists, have publicly stepped forward to support the agreement, written an open letter to Netanyahu on the subject, and otherwise spoken out, including one ex-head of the Mossad, Israels intelligence service, appointed to his position by none other than Netanyahu.
Idiots | Republicans | Warmongers | Weakening America | World Affairs
I went and saw Bernie Sanders the other night at the University of Nevada, Reno. I estimated the crowd at around 3,000, but the Reno Gazette-Journal reports 4,500 people were there. That's not bad for this seedy, soul-dead, Republican dominated hell-hole. If it wasn't for gambling, prostitution and dive bars, the place would be a complete loss, worse than Modesto even (and seeing as how Nevada's public school system routinely ranks dead last in the nation, the future doesn't look bright. Abandon all hope, ye who enter Nevada).
I have a neuralgic loathing of crowds, particularly American crowds in summer apparel. On those unfortunate occasions when I'm surrounded by a herd of Americans at play, consuming, waving flags, listening to classic rock, cheering in unison, I look to the sky in search of that liberating meteor that is going to be here someday … someday …
Let's face it, whenever large groups of Americans get together they either start a war or form a lynch mob (or trample someone to death on route to the stuffed animal aisle or the electronics department).
This crowd was okay, though. The news reports emphasize how young it was, which I guess is true, but I was struck by the number of middle- aged and older people there as well. Many of the of them were the same fading old lefties you see manning the phones at PBS pledge drives, but not all. The crowd was diverse and civil, and no Free Mumia morons or other attention seeking professional "activists" showed up to discredit the event and turn it into a pointless left-wing circle jerk. All in all, it was a healthy gathering where serious but hopeful Americans booed the oligarchy we live under and cheered for a better way.
Before the speech, a group of cartoonishly voluptuous women in short skirts and tank-tops unfurled a banner that said "Hookers 4 Hillary!" They dressed like waitresses at Hooters, and the fellow next to me thought it was a joke; not I. Those were the real thing. A trained eye can always spot an alcoholic or a hooker a mile a way. You just have to know what to look for. Sure enough, they were employees of the nearby Moonlight Bunny Ranch who actively support Hillary Clinton. That's a steady source of funding that your average Bernie supporter might have a tough time matching.
(Incidentally, I'm barely visible in the picture. I'm in the extreme lower right-hand corner wearing a t-shirt and sunglasses, standing in front of the guy in the pink tie-dye).
This is the issue which ought to lie at the heart of the upcoming presidential race but wont. That Obama set out to follow the same disastrous free trade policies as Reagan, the Bushes and Clinton is beyond my comprehension. If Hillary lacks the guts to cut free from her husband and her corporate backers on TPP, the rest of us will be well and truly fornicated.
When Ronald Reagan came into office, as the result of 190 years of Hamiltons plan, the United States was the worlds largest importer of raw materials; the worlds largest exporter of finished, manufactured goods; and the worlds largest creditor.
After 34 years of Reaganomics, weve completely flipped this upside down. Weve become the worlds largest exporter of raw materials, the worlds largest importer of finished goods, and the worlds largest debtor. We now export raw materials to China, and buy from them manufactured goods. And we borrow from them to do it. Our trade debt right now stands at over $11 trillion, and its the principal reason why one-seventh of all assets in the United States are foreign-owned.
Class Warriors | Economics and Society | Elections | Historical Perspectives | The Real Cost of Globalization | Weakening America
Can it be possible that Lindsey Graham actually believes his own drivel? Can we even conceive of a lack of self-knowledge so profound? No? Well thats because were not Lindsey Graham. The only hands across the aisle the wee fellow would consider shaking would be the ones with white flags in them. From USAToday:
Whats wrong with Washington is that we dont do enough together, Graham said. And the people that are frustrated are more ideological frustrated that they cant have everything they want. How do you fix immigration without a Democrat and a Republican working together? How do you save Medicaid and Social Security without a bipartisan plan?
From the Alternet:
It brings up a very important issue and that is, do those black lives matter? Carson told one of Fox News indistinguishable stooges. The number one cause of death for black people is abortion. I wonder if maybe some people might at some point become concerned about that and ask why is that happening and what can be done to alleviate that situation. I think thats really the important question.Back when Carson was doing brain surgery, he should have grabbed one for himself.
Elections | Idiots | Presidential Hopefuls | Race | Reveling in the Weird
It is always discouraging to be reminded, again and again and again, that there is sure enough nothing new under the sun. But let's do it anyway. Here's a passage from Richard Hofstadter's The Paranoid Style in American Politics. I had forgotten that the GOP's Southern strategy dated back not to Nixon's 1968 campaign but to Barry Goldwater's four years earlier. So discredit where discredit's due:
Goldwater's departure from the Republican pattern was compounded by his position on civil rights. One of the oldest, though hardly the most efficacious, of the traditions of many conservatives in the north and even to a degree in the South as well has been a certain persistent sympathy with the Negro and a disposition to help them in moderate ways to relieve his distress. This tradition goes back to the Federalist party; it was continued by the Whig gentry; it infused the early Republican Party.
By adopting the Southern strategy, the Goldwater men abandoned this inheritance. They committed themselves not merely to a drive for a core of Southern states in the electoral college but to a strategic counterpart in the north which required the search for racist votes. They thought they saw a good mass issue in the white backlash, which they could indirectly exploit by talking of violence in the streets, crime, juvenile delinquency, and the dangers faced by our mothers and daughters.
Eisenhower, like Goldwater, had been unmoved by noble visions of progress toward racial justice, but he at least gave lip service to the ideal and thought it important to enforce the laws himself and to speak out for public compliance. But Goldwater arrived at the position, far from conservative in its implications, that the decisions [ed. note: Brown v. Board of Education] of the Supreme Court are not necessarily the law of the land. Of course, the decisions of the court have always had political content and they have often been highly controversial; there is no reason why they should suddenly be regarded with whispered reverence. But it is only in our time, and only in the pseudo-conservative movement, that men have become to hint that disobedience to the court is not merely legitimate but is the essence of conservatism.
It is not the authority and legitimacy of the court alone that the pseudo-conservative right calls into question. When it argues that we are governed largely by means of near-hypnotic manipulation (brainwashing), wholesale corruption, and betrayal, it is indulging in something more significant than the fantasies of indignant patriots: it is questioning the legitimacy of the political order in itself. The two-party system, as it has developed in the United States, hangs on the common recognition of loyal opposition: each side accepts the ultimate good intentions of the other. The opponents judgment may be held to be consistently execrable, but the legitimacy of his intent is not that is, in popular terms, his Americanism is not questioned. One of the unspoken assumptions of presidential campaigns is that the leaders of both parties are patriots who, however serious their mistakes, must be accorded the right to govern. But an essential point in the pseudo-conservative worldview is that our recent presidents, being men of wholly evil intent, have conspired against the public good. This does more than discredit them: it calls into question the validity of the political system that keeps putting such men into office.
Elections | Historical Perspectives | Race | Republicans
The idea that a nuclear Iran would pose an existential threat to Israel is of course grotesque and could only be taken seriously by someone as feckless, self-centered and delusional as my former (thank God) senator, Joe Lieberman.
So let Yale Law School professor Paul W. Kahn tell you whats actually going on here. Excerpts:
Suppose [Netanyahu] is right that Iran can comply while still developing its nuclear knowhow, which would allow it to develop a bomb quickly at the end of the agreement. Yet without an agreement, Iran may be only months away from the construction of a bomb should it choose to go that route. How is 15 years not better than 15 months?
Similarly how is it not better to have a right to inspect even after 24 days than no right to inspect at all?
Things only begin to make sense when we realize that Netanyahu doesnt care about the bomb. He knows the two essential facts about the nuclear age. First, the knowledge of how to make a bomb cannot be eliminated. The technical knowledge that Iran now has cannot be negotiated away. This means that Iran will always be a potential nuclear state. With or without a deal, Iran can always decide to become a nuclear state. The only issue is how long it will take to get there. No matter what, the answer will always be not very long.
Second, nuclear states are locked in reciprocal relationships of deterrence. Treaties dont keep states from using nuclear weapons, the threat of devastating retaliation does. For this reason, nuclear weapons have been useless as offensive weapons for seven decades. Nuclear states have preferred defeat in a conventional war over raising the possibility of a retaliatory, nuclear exchange. Netanyahu does not care about an Iranian bomb because Israel already has the bomb. The same thing that prevents Iran from using biological or chemical weapons will keep Iran from using a nuclear bomb
Money and politics are what this dispute is about, not nuclear bombs. This is what Netanyahu will not say, for to focus on Israels real enemies is also to raise the issue of what more Israel could do to end the dispute with the Palestinians, which is at the heart of all of this.
Idiots | Republicans | Weakening America
How many times do I have to say this? Loosen up, people. Have you ever tickled a cute little toddler? Been on a high school football team? What are you, some kind of sex fiend?
From Flagler Live:
More broadly speaking, however, is an issue that plagues both children and adults at summer camps alike: for fear of litigation, local interpretation of a state code very strictly forbids adults touching children, in any manner.From the New York Times:
Even to apply sunscreen to a burning child.
The players, both 17 at the time of the episode, had been charged with aggravated sexual contact and aggravated assault, among other crimes, and were tried as juveniles by a judge behind closed doors in Middlesex County family court.
Seven Sayreville players, from 15 to 17 years old, were accused last fall of attacking members of the freshman football team in a ritual that involved jumping and beating the younger players, groping their genitals or penetrating them from behind with a finger poked through pants. The scandal stunned the suburban town of 44,000 just southwest of New York City.
Idiots | Legal Absurdities | Psychology and Society
Guess which state this school is in:
East Anchorage High, a school of 2,200 students, serves Mountain View. The principal, Sam Spinella, began his career in education in a New Jersey classroom where most students were white. At East, 80 percent of the student body is nonwhite, he said. After English, the most common languages spoken are Spanish, Hmong, Samoan, Tagalog, Somali and Yupik.
Sometimes students will isolate themselves, he said, hanging out only with people like them who speak their language. But no one group ranks higher in terms of achievement or involvement at East. Classes and sports, like soccer, create inspiring cultural mixing grounds. The students dont know any different, but there are moments, like some mornings when he walks into the common area, that he is still moved by it.
I look out there, he said, and I see the world.
Education | Race
Well, well, Black Lives Matter just crashed another Bernie Sanders event and forced him off the stage.
I wonder, why dont they do this to Jeb Bush or Scott Walker? Why dont they accost Hillary Clinton? Why do they only attack the the most progressive candidate in the election? Why do they only attack their most natural political ally?
Can anyone explain this to me?
Who benefits most from undermining Bernie in a primary campaign? We all know the answer to that.
Good thing for this wise-ass son of a bitch he wasnt handing out copies of the First Amendment. (h/t to Undernews.)
The Denver Post reported that 56-year-old Mark Iannicelli set up a small booth with a sign reading Juror Info outside the Lindsay-Flanigan Courthouse in Denver last week. The Denver District Attorneys Office charged Iannicelli with seven counts of jury tampering after members of the jury pool were found to be in possession of fliers describing jury nullification.
Jury nullification allows juries to acquit a defendant who they may believe is guilty if they also believe that the law is unjust. The practice has been used by juries in the United States since the 1800s to nullify anti-free speech laws and laws punishing northerners for helping runaway slaves. It has most recently been used in drug cases when juries have viewed laws as discriminatory.
Civil Liberties | Essential Liberties | Idiots | Legal Absurdities


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Heirloom-Squash Tartlets
- Yield: Makes 12
Source: Martha Stewart Living, November 2006
- 2 pounds heirloom squashes, (such as White Acorn, Golden Nugget, or Red Kabocha), cut into wedges and seeded
- All-purpose flour, for work surface
- 2 recipes Pate Sucree
- 3 large eggs
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon plus 1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- Pinch of ground nutmeg
- 1 1/2 cups evaporated milk
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Fit a medium pot with a steamer insert, and fill with water to just below the insert. Bring to a boil. Add squashes to insert; steam until soft, 15 to 20 minutes. Let cool completely.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out 1 disk of dough to a large rectangle, about 1/8-inch thick. Transfer to a baking sheet, and refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes. Repeat with remaining disk.
Cut dough into twelve 5-inch rounds. Fit a round into each 4 1/2-inch tart shell, pressing into corners; trim flush with top edge. Refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes. Line each shell with parchment paper, and fill with pie weights or dried beans. Freeze 10 minutes.
Bake tart shells 10 minutes. Remove weights and parchment. Return to oven; bake 5 to 10 minutes more. Transfer to wire racks; let cool completely.
Scoop out flesh of squashes into a food processor, and process until pureed (you should have 1 1/2 cups puree). Transfer to a large bowl. Add all other ingredients, and whisk until combined.
Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees. Set tart shells on a rimmed baking sheet. Divide filling among shells. Bake until all but centers are set, 15 to 18 minutes. Transfer to wire racks; cool completely.


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Evolution of male genitalia: environmental and genetic factors affect genital morphology in two Drosophila sibling species and their hybrids
Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:77 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-77Published: 15 May 2007
The rapid evolution of genital morphology is a fascinating feature that accompanies many speciation events. However, the underlying patterns and explanatory processes remain to be settled. In this work we investigate the patterns of intraspecific variation and interspecific divergence in male genitalic morphology (size and shape) in the cactophilic sibling species Drosophila buzzatii and D. koepferae. Genital morphology in interspecific hybrids was examined and compared to the corresponding parental lines.
Despite of being siblings, D. buzzatii and D. koepferae showed contrasting patterns of genital morphological variation. Though genitalic size and shape variation have a significant genetic component in both species, shape varied across host cacti only in D. buzzatii. Such plastic expression of genital shape is the first evidence of the effect of rearing substrate on genitalic morphology in Drosophila. Hybrid genital morphology was not intermediate between parental species and the morphological resemblance to parental strains was cross-dependent.
Our results suggest the evolution of different developmental networks after interspecific divergence and the existence of a complex genetic architecture, involving genetic factors with major effects affecting genital morphology.


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IBM aims Linux OpenPOWER systems at Intel
IBM and its OpenPOWER partners are launching three flavors of Linux servers in an effort to swipe big data workloads from Intel.
IBM's retooling to become focused on software and services is legendary. The company is an outsourcing and services leader and has placed its bet on analytics for the near future. IBM's software assets focus on everything from business intelligence to analytics to collaboration to middleware and open source development. On the hardware side of the house, IBM is a mainframe and server leader. Big Blue also has a large research unit and is the patent leader.
IBM and its OpenPOWER partners are launching three flavors of Linux servers in an effort to swipe big data workloads from Intel.
If enterprises are going to revolve around their algorithms, IBM CEO Ginny Rometty wants to make sure Watson is in the mix. IBM launches cognitive business consulting unit.
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IBM plans to integrate Chicago-based Cleversafe into its IBM Cloud business unit in a bid to bolster its overall hybrid cloud storage portfolio.
Blerter wants to be the social network for health and safety across technology, company and industry silos.
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Following up on a new alliance announced three months ago, the two tech brands introduced a quartet of new products for enterprise content management and collaboration.
The Big Blue's financing arm has partnered with the ERP vendor to facilitate software purchasing by companies feeling the recession's impact.
Tech companies, including IBM, see medical technology as important to the future health of populations - and their own.
IBM acquires Workday services provider Meteorix in a move that will give the financials and HR software provider more throughput.
IBM Watson is getting bigger (and smarter) each day, and now the supercomputer is moving into a new city with some new toys.
IBM is launching technology that will secure cloud apps employees use on their own for work purposes.
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Big Blue's new cloud-based solution is aimed at improving automotive data analysis and providing drivers real-time services.
IBM names Harriet Green general manager of its newly formed Internet of things unit. A unit focused on education will launch later this year.
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Artisan Debug Profiler for Laravel
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- php: >=5.4.0
- react/socket: 0.4.*
- orchestra/support: 3.1.*
Requires (Dev)
- mockery/mockery: 0.9.*
- monolog/monolog: ~1.11
- illuminate/console: 5.1.*
- illuminate/container: 5.1.*
- laravel/framework: Allow using orchestra/debug as added feature for Laravel (~5.1).
Debug Component is commandline profiling package for Laravel, It was based from Laravel 4.1 commandline profiling tool which was merged with
php artisan tail.
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Version CompatibilityLaravel Debug 4.0.x 2.0.x 4.1.x 2.1.x 4.2.x 2.2.x 5.0.x 3.0.x 5.1.x 3.1.x 5.2.x 3.2.x@dev
To install through composer, simply put the following in your
composer.json file:
{ "require": { "orchestra/debug": "~3.0" } }
And then run
composer install from the terminal.
Quick Installation
Above installation can also be simplify by using the following command:
composer require "orchestra/debug=~3.0"
Add following service providers in
'providers' => [ // ... Orchestra\Debug\DebugServiceProvider::class, Orchestra\Debug\CommandServiceProvider::class, ],
You could also create an alias for
Orchestra\Support\Facades\Profiler in
'aliases' => [ // ... 'Profiler' => Orchestra\Support\Facades\Profiler::class, ],
Enabling Profiler
To enable the profiler, all you need to do is:
This normally would goes in your development environment such as
localenvironment, in the case
app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.phpwould be an ideal location to include the command.
Viewing the Profiler
To view the profiler, run the following command in your terminal:
php artisan debug


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